This Week in Technology

We have witnessed greater collaboration among cybercriminals exploiting the underground market, which has allowed them to develop efficiencies in their products. Cybercriminals have been partnering in this way for years; in 2019 this market economy will only expand. The game of cat and mouse the security industry plays with ransomware developers will escalate, and the industry will need to respond more quickly and effectively than ever before.

According to Proofpoint researchers, who analyzed attacks against Fortune 500 companies, pharmaceutical companies were the most targeted by hackers in the last quarter with an average of 71 fraud attacks per business. In fact, there have been 282 attacks on the pharma industry this year.

As well as scalability and flexibility, Howe says the cloud provides other benefits. "It allows us to be more dynamic as a team and to think more carefully about where we should focus our attention," he says. "It gives us better transparency in terms of costs, too."

With the release of macOS Mojave this year, Apple once again introduced new security features in response to the evolving threatscape facing the platform, restricting Apple Events and hardening user data protections.

Hackers are now using a pair of exploits developed by the NSA to burrow through the router and attack connected systems. The two exploits, known as EternalBlue and EternalRed, target Windows and Linux-based systems respectively. This new attack is being termed “EternalSilence” by Akamai, which warns that with 45,000 infected devices, more than a million connected computers could also be vulnerable.

While the modern look and feel has paid off for Edge, the underlying browser engine (EdgeHTML) has struggled to keep up with Chromium. Microsoft is finally giving up and moving its default Windows 10 browser to Chromium.

As part of this technology partnership, VARs and SIs who are Authorized Nutanix Channel Partners, will now be able to brand and personalize Intel Data Center Blocks, packaging them with Nutanix software for individual customer deployments.

In addition to extending Sensitive Data Discovery capabilities and platform support for performing Data Classification in this release, STEALTHbits has also included 51 new GDPR-specific pattern definitions, spanning all EU countries and more.